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"Fifty Minds that Matter" Include CWCIT Friends/Collaborators

In its November 28, 2018 online issue​, The Tablet published its selection of the 50 Catholic women and men who are "doing the most to change the way we imagine ourselves and understand the world" and "making waves and recalibrating disciplines, and adding some Catholic salt to the contemporary cultural soup." Among them are three CWCIT friends/collaborators: Celia Deane-Drummond (2015 "Fragile World" conference keynote speaker);Katongole (2010 CWCIT research scholar); and Laurenti Magesa (2016 CWCIT research scholar).

In their March 15, 2018 program, the archdiocese's "Mission Matters Live" spoke with Stan Chu Ilo about the Society for Hope and Solidarity for the Women
of Central Africa, a project for which he has served as the U.S.
representative; his work founding and sustaining
the charity, Canadian Samaritans for Africa; and about CWCIT's work, including its upcoming April conference on women and leadership in the Church.

On October 21, 2017, in Toronto, AfroGlobal Television presented Stan Chu​ Ilo with its 2017 Global Impact Award​ for the more than 20 projects in four African countries implemented through Canadian Samaritans for Africa, a nonprofit of which he is founder and president. One such project is the water and sanitation initiative and the AduAchi Women's Skills Center in Eastern Nigeria, executed in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recognized as one of the top 10 global projects at the UNESCO-sponsored Mondialogo Awards in 2009, it also won an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) award and recognition from the U.S. State Department.​

In its September 2017 issue, U.S. Catholic published an interview with CWCIT research professor, Rev. Stan Chu Ilo, on African spirituality's unique commitment to community and the belief that everything and everyone is connected through God: "Someone has called it the moral tradition of abundant life. What is abundant life? I say it is human and cosmic flourishing, when every reality is intimately connected to every other reality in a harmonious bond.Read the full interview here.​

On November 12, 2015, CWCIT hosted a discussion on
Muslim-Catholic dialogue in sub-Saharan Africa, which included as
panelists Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria, and DePaul's own
Dr. Babacar Mbengue. The national Jesuit magazine, America, featured the event as reported by Catholic News Service journalist, Michelle Martin. Read the full article here.

Rev. Stan Chu Ilo, CWCIT research professor, gave an interview on HuffPost Live
on March 19, 2015, the two-year anniversary of Pope Francis' election.
He spoke of the pontiff's legacy of simplicity, noting that "the church
can only be credible when the church personifies what the church
preaches." Watch the full interview and read Chu's March 13 blog post on this topic.

In September 2014, Pope Francis named Bishop Blase
Cupich of Spokane, Wash., as the successor to Cardinal Francis George,
OMI, as archbishop of Chicago. Some of our faculty spoke to the media
about this decision and transition:

On March 13, 2013, a conclave of 115 cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, archbishop
of Buenos Aires, as the successor to Pope Benedict XVI. The first Latin
American and Jesuit pope, Bergoglio chose the name Francis.
Participating in this historic conclave were the following cardinals
whom CWCIT has been honored to welcome here at DePaul:

Mar George Cardinal Alencherry (bio)Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church (Kochi, Kerala, India)October 2011 presentation at DePaul: "Catechesis in the World Church"